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Webster 1913 Edition
Discursion
Dis-cur′sion
,Noun.
[LL.
discursio
a running different ways. See Discourse
.] The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discursion
DISCURSION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
discursion
discursion
English
Alternative forms
- discorsioun [16th century]
Noun
discursion (plural discursions)
- (obsolete, rare) The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
- (rare, figuratively) Digression.
- (rare) Ratiocination.
- (philosophy) step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (compare Iamblichus)
Translations
digression
roving about
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philosophic reasoning
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References
- “discursion” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]